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Soloshchenko Denni Ruslanovich

Date of birth: November 18, 1999 (26 years old)
citizenship: Россия
City of residence: Barnaul
Occupation: спорт
Article of the Criminal Code:  205.1 ч. 1.1
Form of repression:  pre-trial detention
Pursuit stage:  preliminary investigation
Current location:  Remand Prison No. 1, Russian Federal Penitentiary Service for Altai Krai

MMA fighter Denni Soloshchenko was taken into custody on January 30, 2026. According to investigators, in the spring of 2025, he and his accomplices collected 24 million rubles, which they then converted into cryptocurrency. These funds were sent to a crypto account used to finance Ukrainian Armed Forces units. The court remanded Soloshchenko to pretrial detention, where he faces up to 15 years in prison for aiding terrorist activity. However, there is information that no later than June 2024, Soloshchenko transferred money to Russian paratroopers fighting against Ukraine.